Saturday, December 17, 2011

Charlie Challenges

I knew that having a baby would be a challenging adjustment for Charlie. Here we are becoming a family of four:

And here is a new view that Charlie sees everyday now:

Before we came home from the hospital, Charlie left on Thanksgiving Day to go to OKC with the Leclercq's. He was supposed to be there for a full week. This was the first time he had been away from us for a trip, other than going to Shreveport with the Leclercq's for a weekend when he was 18 mths old. This was mistake #1. Mistake #2 was not letting him see Collier in our house before sending him to OKC. That weekend he made the comment to Julie, "So, I live with Aunt Jelly now and Collier lives with mommy and daddy?". (Enter lots of tears from me here.) Needless to say, Patrick spent that Sunday on I-35 going to get Charlie to bring him back home. The next week was full of adjusting. Charlie said things like "I'm just so sad." and "I don't like baby Collier." and "Can you put baby Collier down and hold me now?". Not to mention, we had major regression on the potty training front. Luckily, Charlie has not once shown aggression towards Collier. In fact, he really loves his baby brother.
And even tries to feed him like mommy does:
And he likes to be around him:

Now that we are 6 weeks in, Charlie is becoming more himself. The best thing, though, is that he now calls me "mommy" again... for a good 6 mths. before Collier came I was just "mom". And now he says things like "I love you so much, mommy." Melts my heart, I tell ya!

Christmas pics

These are the chosen pics from this year's Christmas/Birth Announcement card.


Update on baby Collier... he is now weighing in at 7.14 lbs., so we have officially passed his birth weight of 7.9 lbs. This means I am letting him sleep at night. Last night we fed at 11pm and he woke up at 4:30am to eat... I am LOVING that this man lets me get a good 5 hr. stretch at just 3.5 weeks old!

Back to Thanksgiving

We had a "thankful tree". Each day we would write down something we were thankful for and hang it from the tree.

Here is Charlie's list:
Mom, dad, hank
Toy snake
Baby Collier's bed
T-ball, baseballs and bats
Bailey (the Allen's dog)
School
Baseball horse (the Rangers mascot)
Milk
My doggy
Thomas the train
Cooper, Isabelle, Sophia
The bird house (random gift that my mom gave us)
Toys
Baseball shirt (he owns 3 Rangers shirts; not sure which one he was refering to here)
Chick-fi-let cow (even though he is terrified of that thing each time we see it)
Micky, Minnie, Donald duck, goofie

Excuse the delay... with a newborn in our lives I'd much rather sleep than update the blog.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Collier James Allen

Collier was born on 11/22/11. He weighed 7 lbs, 9 oz and was 19 3/4 inches long.




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